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Boston Dynamics – the producers of the favorite robots of all, able to run, to return, and generally to annoy the human population – is back with its latest robot: a "reinvented" version of its robot Handle from 2017. And this time, it is really very good stackable boxes.
The original handle was designed largely as an experiment using the Boston Dynamics robots' (commonly used for biped or quadruped robots) know-how on wheels. The new version, however, seems much more refined, by applying the original to a really useful machine that can automatically load and unload pallets of products into a warehouse, as shown in the video. It's easy to see Handle's applications in automating warehouse work (like, for example, Amazon's execution centers), with fleets of robots moving and grabbing boxes to form a perfect giant stack .
On the technical side, Boston Dynamics indicates that Handle can hold cartons up to 30 pounds (although the video uses about 12 pounds) and stack pallets up to 4 feet deep and up to 30 pounds. at 5.5 feet in height. Embedded vision systems help Handle find boxes to capture and track the pallets they are supposed to be routed to. Add all this together and it means that Handle could probably crush you to Giant Jenga.
Like many Boston Dynamics projects, Handle is still only a prototype: the company has not yet announced its intention to turn it into a commercial product.
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